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t .) THE MOHNING OTtEGONIAN. - THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1900. I h rssonicm Entered at the PostofHce at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. TEL.EPHOXK5. Editorial Rooms.... ICO 1 Business Office 687 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Br Mall (postage prepaid), In Advancs Daily, with Sunday, per month $0 S3 Dally, Sunday excepted, per 3 ear 7 50 Dally, with Sunday, per year . 9 00 Sunday, per jear 2 00 The Weekly, per year. 1 50 The Weekly, 3 months 50 To City Suberlbers Dally. per week, delivered, Sundays exeepted.l5c Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays lncluded.20c News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonian should be addressed invariably "Editor The Oreeonlan." not to the name or any individual. Letters relating to advertising, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonian." The Oregonian does not buy poems or stories from individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to it without solicita tion. Xo stamps should be Inclosed for this pur pose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 -Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Box 955, Tacoma Po5tofllee. Eastern Business Office The Tribune building. New York city; "The Rookery," Chicago; the S. C. Beckwith special agency. New York. For sale In San Francisco by J, K. Cooper, 746 Market street, near the Palace hotel, and at Goldsmith Bros.. 30 Sutter street. For sale In Chlcairo bv the P. O. News Co.. r 17 Dearborn strret. r TODAT'S WEATHER. Fair; winds mostly northerly. . . PORTLAND, THURSDAY, 3IAY 31. The year 1900 is a crisis in the his tory of the Pacific Coast. The future of Its commerce, manufactures and ag riculture is at stake on the Issue of Pa cific expansion. Yet at this critical hour we have a combination of Bryan ltes with professed Republicans labor ing diligently for the overthrow of the Republican cause. These enemies of their state and nation should not re ceive the vote of a single intelligent, sincere man In Oregon. Every vote cast for the-oppositlon Is a blow at our cities, our shipping and our farms. It Is a time to subordinate personal and neighborhood preferences to the su preme thing. Every man that votes to defeat the Republican nominees or re duce the Republican majority votes money out of his own pocket and ham pers the career of his children. Among a portion of our people there is a demand for the initiative and ref erendum, and the Multnomah County Republican members of the last legislature favored the submission of the subject to popular vote. It is understood that the Legis lative nominees on the Republican ticket have also pledged or will pledge themselves to support submission of the matter to popular vote. In this they are likely to receive, as they deserve, the countenance and votes of Populists, who have no end to gain In the triumph of the McBrlde-Mitchell combination. The Initiative and the referendum are cumbrous and useless devices of politi cal machinery. But there are things far worse than they. The principle of the referendum is already recognized In submission of Constitutional amend ments, bridge tolls, consolidation and other questions of grave Import to pop ular vote. To extend this formality to every branch or subject of legislation .unnecessary: but perhaps It would he unjust to deny the people opportu nity to express themselves upon the general subject. Once rejected, we should have the right to demand cessa tion of demand 'for it. The Initiative and referendum will never give us the silver basis, or anti-imperialism, or Jobs of unpopular bosses. "We assume. In this, that the Popu lists are reasoning beings, and that when they have had a verdict on their pet measure they will accept It. It will be time enough to classify them with the insatiable suffragists and Prohibi tionists when they exhibit slmilarNpro penslties. A man is presumed innocent till he is proven guilty. TVhen workers among the Southern colored people declare that present methods are practically a failure, reme dies proposed by theorists and inexperi enced essayists may not be hopefully accepted. A startling indictment of in dustrial education as a means for the negro's elevation is made by Rev. D. C. Lilly, who is secretary of a colored In stitute, presumably a negro himself, and undoubtedly a practical man. He claims to have compiled statistics showing that of 1243 colored men edu cated industrially. Just three have con tinued to follow their trades. In the Xdrth, where the condition of the race iB better than In the South, It is a fact that, with rare exceptions, the trades are shunned. Dr. Lilly thinks the fu ture of the race lies In agricultural pursuits. He may improve his condi tion, but it will be always with the constant aid of the whites. The colored race cannot In the present generation at least be other than dependent. There is some poetic Justice In Gal llnger's resentful determination to make a China trade commission the price of appropriation for the St. Louis fair. The two projects are essentially alike. Neither Is within the legitimate province of Government. It is nearly four years since the Ca nadian House of Commons now sitting at Ottawa was elected, and the Toronto Globe says that a new appeal to the ballot-box may be looked for at an early date. The Globe is confident that the Liberals under the lead of Sir Wil frid Laurier will be victorious at the next general election. The Toronto Mall and Empire, on the other hand, is Tiopeful of victory for the Conserva tives, who have carried the Province of Manitoba and have shown an in crease of strength in Prince Edward's Island and in New Brunswick. The Sollrl, Laurier's organ in the Province Of Quebec, describes an early dissolu tion of Parliament as "a grave error." and thinks that the Liberals are not ready for the struggle, that they need to mend their political fences not only In Quebec, but throughout the Domin ion, if they are to maintain their pres ent ascendency. The decision of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts that under the Sundav law druggists cannot sell tobacco on I the "Lord's day." springs from an agi tation mat began elcht or ten venrs ago, Mhen the cigar stores were closed ion Sunday. The Je.vs among these Jtgar coalers advanced the Dlea. which (was net allowed, that, inasmuch as they observed the Sabbath by keeping HeT places closed on Saturday, they fouiu De auowea to trade on Sunday. iter their defeat these Jew dealers lUested against the sale of cigars' by drug stores on the day that cigar stores were debarred from dealing, and the Supreme Court has sustained this protest as Just. THE ISSUES ARE REAL. The chief effort of the Mitchell-Mc-Brlde push is directed against the Re publican Legislative ticket. They have made common cause on all city and county offices with Democrats, with Fusion Populists and with an array of Independent candidates. The first are mere survivors from the wreck of a once-great party; the second are the demoralized remnant of Pennoyerism. and all Its desperate and unscrupulous projects; the last an organized "graft" who are in politics for what they can get out of it. All have an interested purpose in defeating Republican candi dates and overthrowing Republican principles. Thus they are found bat tling together, just as they were two years ago and four years ago. The Mitchell-McBrlde conspirators really care little for the city and county offices. They will be content if these go to Democrats or to the Independents. It does not greatly concern them, even if the Republicans are successful. They are associated with all opponents of the regular Republican nominees, and they are In honor bound to help them in re turn for aid they themselves demand, expect, and will receive. But they will trade off any fellow-candidate for votes for the orphan Citizens candi dates. All others may perish, so these Legislative candidates survive. This is their supreme object; all else Is Imma terial and trivial. In the dark lexicon of political piracy, there's no such word, as honor. Treachery to their coadju tors has ever been their practice. Their doctrine is success at any cost; their rule of action squares with their prin ciples. Look at the attitude of the Federal Brigade: Republican office-holders, holding place under a Republican Ad ministration, they are, almost without exception, either openly hostile or os tentatiously Indifferent to Republican success. Leaders among them, like District Attorney Hall, ate perniciously active in their opposition to the regular Legislative candidates. "Who has In spired this bold and defiant position? "Who has guaranteed to him and others like Titm immunity from criticism in "Washington? "Whose interest is he di rectly and avowedly endeavoring to subserve? Tet all these men are in lu crative position as a result of the great Republican victory In state and Nation four years ago. And the burden of achieving Republican success and es tablishing Republican principles then, as it does now, rested upon the men and the organization they are furiously fighting. Principles are nothing to them except as they are in accord with their own personal designs; party suc cess is to be made impossible unless it Is an agency for the maintenance of their graft. If the eighteen Republican Legislat ive candidates are beaten, what then? The Mitchell-McBrlde gang will have been revenged, and we are likely to have a Fusion United States Senator, or, what is worse, Mitchell. His mach inations extend through all parts of the state. The knife is at the throat of Re publican candidates everywhere. In counties and districts where there is a narrow margin, he hopes and expects to slaughter the Republican and elect the Fusionlst If this desperate plot suc ceeds, and If the regular nominees are beaten In Multnomah, It will be Impos sible for the Republicans to elect a Sen ator. Legislators who have no politics but Mitchellism expect to control or hold the balance of power with the Democrats. Mitchell will be the solu tion of this mixed and uncertain situa tion. This game was played in 18S5, when sixteen Democrats voted for Mitchell. Under the right conditions, which Mitchell Is using every strata gem and all his many resources to bring about. It can be played again. The eighteen Republican candidates for the Legislature are entitled to and should receive, every one of them, the vote of all Republicans who value prin ciple and are concerned in the welfare of our country, and the maintenance of all its present great policies. There may be some complaint about this or that man on the ticket. But the per sonality of the candidates Is not the Issue. It Is the principles and purposes for which they stand severally and In dividually. There Is some feeling among Republicans that the nominations were machine-made, and smack of bosslsm. That again is not the paramount ques tion. These are the men who ntand for a real nfflrmntlve pnrpose in our ntnte and National life. They will have to do -with matter that affect every citizen In bin relation to the country's Rreat dcntlny. They are the voice of Oregon, the concrete ex pression of It attitude toward ex pansion, the KOld standard, and all the principle clmmploml by the Republican party. Xo cowardly eva sion, no falte assertion that local Issues are first, onght to be permit ted to deceive the voter. "What Is the message of Oregon to the vrorld at larger GALLIFET'S RESIGNATION. The resignation of General Galllfet, as Minister of "War, from the "Waldeck Rousseau Cabinet, will be regretted, for he Is both an able soldier and an abso lutely fearless, patriotic and Incorrupt ible man, whose presence at the head of the "War Department was a tower of strength to the Republic during the critical times that followed the acces sion of M. Loubet to the Presidency and during the second trial of Dreyfus. The French Cabinet organized by "Waldeck-Rousseau Is composed of men not natural allies in ordinary politics. It Includes men of socialist opinions and men of monarchical and aristo cratic prejudices, like the Marquis de Galllfet. It was a "ministry of all the talents" that consented to stand to gether for the time being to tide France over a dangerous crisis, and It succeed ed largely because General Galllfet was both loved and feared by the army as a man of splendid record for valor and of equally high reputation for stern courage to execute whatever he under took. Galllfet's resignation at the present time probably will not precipitate any serious political crisis. It Is doubtless due to Irritation and indignation at the recent attacks made upon him in de bate. He is'glad to get out today, when he feels that he is no longer necessary to the safety of the state. It was not expected that the "Waldeck-Rousseau Ministry would long survive the emer gency that made its organization pos sible, and General Galllfet's resignation may be the beginning of its dissolution. A VALUABLE BULLETIN. Among the late bulletins prepared and sent out by the United States De partment of Agriculture is one showing the wheat production of the world for the past five years, which will prove of unusual Interest to a very large number of the. people of the country. It appears that under ordinary condi tions the seven countries of the North ern hemisphere produce three-fourths of the world's wheat supply. These countries are Russia, India, France, Austria-Hungary, the United States, Germany and Italy. Of these, but two Russia ana the United States have a large surplus that can from year to year be depended upon for export. A curious feature of Wheat produc tion and supply Is that while the conti nent of Europe produces more than 50 per cent of the crop and North America but 25 per dent, Europe is a constant buyer and North America a constant seller of wheat. Statements of the variations In the price of wheat and their causes are presented showing how these conform to the law of supply and demand. For example, Europe's pro portion of the world's wheat crop In 1897 fell below the standard, while that of the United States was advanced, the yield of cur fields being remarkably heavy and of excellent quality. For eign demand advanced prices to the great advantage of our "Western farm ers, as shown In the sharp advance in prices and number of mortgages lifted from farm lands by crop returns. The two following harvests were of prodigious yield In South America and Australasia, the surplus of which went to European markets, with th'e result that the price of wheat went down and still shows little inclination of rising. "What the coming harvest conditions will bring forth cannot yet be accu rately determined, though estimates based upon -carefully collected data do not Indicate a return of the demand of 1897. Though purely a commercial and ag ricultural document, the presentment made by this wheat bulletin shows the utter absurdity of the claims upon which the Populistic political move ment was based, and of the demand for free silver as a remedy frtr agricultural depression. Though prudently removed from politics and disdaining the meth ods of politicians, the Government De partment of Agriculture In turning on the searchlight of cause and effect by means of bulletins of this character ex poses the shallow devices of demagogy by which It was sought to turn Influ ences of trade, world-wide In character; Into narrow local channels and stamp them as the product of our financial policy. OBJECT-LESSOX IN PROHIBITION. The Prohibitionists of Oregon need to note the fact that the prohibitory liquor law is confessed by Its friends to haVe broken down In Maine, the state of its birth, where the sale of liquor Is prohibited by the Constitution as well as the statutes. The Rev. C. A. Knick erbocker, of Lewlston, and Professor Purlnton, of Cobb Divinity School, have been making an Investigation bf the enforcement of the llqour law In Lewis ton and Auburn, which contain to gether about 35,000 people. There is an excellent school system, a college and a divinity school, and a good press, so that the two places furnish a fair field of test of the liquor problem in Maine. Lewlston, with 25,000 people, supports 103 liquor saloons or restaurants where ardent spirits are sold. In addition to which are the hotels. These liquor shops are open to all. The liquor-sellers are fined pretty regularly sums which amount in a year to the equiva lent of a moderate license fee. Essentially the same conditions exist In every large place In Maine. The Rev. Mr. Knickerbocker says that "the policy of the court and of the ofllcers of the law is not one of repression, not one of enforcement of law, but simply one by which a creditable amount of revenue may be secured to the county." This policy is general throughout the state, although in some counties no raids are made by the local officers or county officers, but every year the liquor-dealers are "rounded up'1 and made to pay a fine, which in one county amounts on the average to ?4S0 a year. The whole judiciary of the state co-operates in this nullification of the law. The Rev. J. S. Durkee reports that "practically every one of the Judges In terprets th law In a regulative sense, and not In a prohibitive," Imprisonment for liquor-selling being very rare, even in the case of the worst offenders. The Rev. Mr. Knickerbocker and his clerical associates In this Investigation and re port, speaking with full knowledge of these disgraceful conditions that now prevail In Maine, declare that if the law cannot be cleansed In Its enforce ment, "then In the name of outraged order and decency wipe It off the statute-book" and substitute for an un workable prohibition policy a system of regulation that can be enforced. There is no reason why Scott Brooke should not have the support of the young men of this city, among whom he has grown up to an honorable and respected position In the community, and especially the loyal aid and votes of all Republicans. If he is defeated through apathy or betrayal, the reflec tion will not be a pleasant one for those upon whom the responsibility falls. No Republican Is justified in voting for Mr. Host against Mr. Brooke for the office of County Treasurer. No Republican should consent to shoulder the respon sibility for sacrifice of any portion of the ticket. Portland must elect next Monday whether It will take advantage of the recent Legislative act placing Its park system In the hands of a special com mission, with power to levy an annual tax of one-half mill. The project Is worthy and practicable, and It should be accepted. It is in line with approved policies of municipal government adopted in many American cities, where control of the parks has been removed entirely from politics and placed with a body of disinterested cit izens, whose sole motive is to adorn the city. Portland has many fine natural advantages for landscape effects arid park aad street adornments. A com plete park system, intelligently Initiat ed and maintained, would be not only a source of pride, but an actual benefit, to all citizens. Under present property valuation in this city, the -Income to the proposed commission would be something like 415,000 annuallylittle enough to undertake great things, but large enough to make a vast Improve ment if Judiciously expended. The vot ers of Portland will pass upon this Im portant matter at Monday's election, and it is to be hoped that It will receive a favorable majority. Up In the "Willamette Valley the FU slonists are talking mortgage-tax. "Vote for the re-enactment of the mortgage-tax law by voting for Veatch," et al., cries the Roseburg Review. Veatch? Ah, yes! The same old Veatch, who Is" against everything that has been in twenty years placed on our statute-books, and for everything that has not been. This Is Veatch's con sistent and unvarying rule of political action. This Is the reason why he be came politically moribund several years ago. Now have the dead resurrected the dead and v?c are to be haunted by the ghost of the mortgage-tax. Continuing Its good work In the cause of sound money, the Sound Currency Committee of the Reform Club has issued a pamphlet on the subject, "Our Money As It Is." The pamphlet con tains an Introduction to our currency system as It exists today, and a discus sion of the standard of value, gold and silver coin, silver certificates, redemp tion of United States notes, etc., and other information of value. It may be read with profit by all voters. Copies are to be had at 5 cents each of Sound Currency Committee, 52 "William street, New York City. The British losses officially stated up to May 5 are 289 ofllcers killed and died of disease, 731 wounded and 170 miss ing. Rank and file, 4309 killed and died of disease, 9S43 wounded and 4235 miss ing, or a lota' of 19,977. There have been 7219 ofllcers and men sent home or invalided. There are about 9000 In hospitals. Adding some" 5000 noncom batants, who have been killed, wounded and died of disease, the total casualties of the war are over 40,000. 'Whatever the mutations of Pennoyer ism, and the just suspicions bt Its de vious methods and purposes, John Montag was steadfast throughout? He has the unenviable record of remain ing a Fire Commissioner during the whole Pennoyer regime, although his colleagues and fellow office-holders were sacrificed right and left when they would not yield wholly to the demands of unscrupulous politics. All the Republican Legislative can didates now up for re-election voted for the Australian ballot, and for the regis tration law, as they severally had op portunities to go on record. And they are on record for a primary law. "What reason Is there to doubt that they will support any proper and practicable measure looking to primary reform? Nature provides Its compensations. The eclipse was scarcely visible In this state, but we are promised another dazzling phenomenon. The great pink comet of "Washington has established his orbit across the surprised firma ment of Oregon. James Hamilton Lewis Is to sizzle and scintillate In Douglas County next Saturday. T?ora Jordan assures the public that when he was Sheriff he' kept his pri vate bank account entirely separate from the official moneys. Doubtless. The Sheriff's office was then under the rich fee system, and Tom took good care to preserre the usufruct of his great graft in all Its productive Integ rity. Of course, the Senate sat down on the resolution for electldn of Senators by the people. Nothing else could have been expected. "When and how shall we get a Senate that will not oppose a method of election by which two thirds of Its membership, as constituted at present, would be retired? Judging from our Montana ex changes, Clark's tears excited only de rision in that state. But Clark knows how to arouse respectful attention among his late constituents. Let him once more pick up his hammer and be gin to knock in the head of his bar'l. Doubtless Mr. L. B. Cox did not hear Candidate Smith's free-Ellver argument at that meeting Tuesday night. De fective hearing and defective political vlslcn now enable some Gold Democrats to be dumb and sightless on questions they were keenly alive to In 1836. Of course, the loss of the Treasurer ship to Mr. Hoyt would be a blow to his double employment and his double sal ary. But his friends need not worry. He is a capable bank cashier, and will continue to receive comfortable com pensation. Governor Geer Is making good pros perity speeches. Here is a subject far above the abstractions of anti-Imperialism and 16 to 1. He that runs may understand; and he that hath ears to hear, let him hear and profit. The Methodists affirm that they are still down on dancing. But It is never theless observable that many strong young arms of the church insist on going to waist. The Only Answer to Spooner. New York Commercial Advertiser. Senator Spconer disclosed in the most shameless manner yesterday tie hellish policy Of the McKinley Administration in regard to our new possessions. He was prodded into the disclosure by the per sistent and merciless nagging of that noble pair of PopocraUc allies of the an-tl-lmperlallst league, Allen of Nebraska and Pettigrew'of South Dakota. They would not let him escape, and he finally satisfied them by saying: We trill do what is generous nnd right. We will give them rood government honest gov ernment. If wo come upon a dishonest em ploye we will tend him to the penitentiary. Then the day will come, when these people are enjoying the blessings of prosperity, content ment and good government, when the Ameri can people will grant them an autonomous gov ernment. When we have erected a government In Cuba, stable &nd strong; when we have con ferred the blessings of civil liberty upon the people of Porto Rico; when we have given the Filipinos such a government and such an ad ministration as they never dreamt-d then we shall have worked out a consummation more glorious and given a greater example of what liberty can do than has ever been seen In the history of the world. Of course the answer to that Is easy. It Is all a He." Everybody who says that our intention in our new possessions is anything else than to kill the natives and steal their country awajr from them while the shooting. Is going on. Is a Har, and has repudiated all .his own principles and those of the founders of the Republic. AGUINALSO A TYI?E. ProdHct of Native Canning; aad Span ish Peculation. Boston Transcript. The letter from Agulnaldo to General Rios, the Spanish commandant at Ilo Ho, which Senator Spooner read, effectually disposes of what little Is left of the the ory that the Insurgent leader was a man who was disposed to be our friend until our generate forced the fighting. Tnia letter to Rloa proposing a coalition of the Spaniards and the insurgents tor the ex pulsion of the Americans is? dated Octo ber 2S. 1S5S, months before that Nebraska sentry, resisting the attempt of an in surgent patrol to pass his post, fired a "shot heard round the world." Moreover, In this letter Agulnaldo alludes to his correspondence with General Augustine, the Spanish Governor-General, who es caped from Manila at the time of Its sur render. Agulnaldo appears to have proposed to Augustine early in June that he shou d surrender Manila to the Insurgents, 'and that then both the Insurgents and the Spaniards should combine to attack the Americans. Augustine, was neither brave nor sensitive, but thc-re must have been something of the spirit of an officer left In him, for he treated the suggestion ot delivering up his post to insurgent against his own Government with silejtt contempt. The course of Rios Is not quite so clear. He surrendered Ho Ilo to the in surgents, though whether as the. result or the stress of circumstances or of a pre arranged plot, is not as yet placed beyond doubt. The dates In this correspondence are significant. They should hot be lost sight of. Agulnaldo arrived at Manila May IS, and wltnin less than a month he was endeavoring to Intrigue with the Spaniards against Dewey. This was even before General Anderson landed the first "brigade of our troops in Luzon, and in the light of the revelations now afforded, we see that It was not the prompting of a super sensitive pride, but deliberate Intention that caused Agulnaldo to throw obstacle In the way of our earliest commander on the ground. His caval.er treatment of Anderson is now amply accounted for, as well as his treachery to Dewey, who brought him from Manila and aided him In his campaign against the Spaniard?. Admiral Dewey must bitterly regret the day that he became the patron of Aguln aldo, and gave him free transportation to Manila. He never had the highest opinion of "Don Emil'llo." but he never fathomed the depth of baseness revealed In this correspondence. Jndeed. the more we learn of the real Agulnaldo the more he justifies the belief that he is but a type of the military adventurer class of whlc'i the Spanish colonial Fstem developed such a swarm; not a general but a guer rilla chief, clever at intrigue, formidable In ambush, but despicable in the open field, and more Easily bought oft than beaten off. Only the jaundiced eye of po litical opposition can see anything of Washington In Agulnaldo. THERE HAVE BEEN OTHERS. Stealing by Government Officials Lean Thnn In Other Dny. Chicago Tribune. The General Government may be out between $100,000 and J200.CO5 by the ope a tlons of Neely. the former trcasurtr of the Postofflce Department lit Cuba. This is a large sum. but the siatemc-nt that "in the history of the Government's Postal Department, no such loss Ms ever before been imposed oh it by a trusted emp oye or executive department head" Is net cor rect. The admlnlstra ion of department affairs Under Monroe. Adams, and Jack son was scandalously lax and often cor rupt. Barry, who was Jackson's fi'st Partmaater-Ger.eral, had to resign In dis grace because cf the dlfcclOsurts mad as to his management of affairs. The contractors for mai' service ran the de partment to suit themselves. Stmul L. Gouverneur, a relative ot President Mon roe, who had been Postmaster at New York for many years, wa dL mised after he had robbed the Goverrment of a large amount. He was the accomp lie of a m..il contractor. The Postofflce robberies were petty com pared with those hi other dcDartment';. Samuel L. Swartwout. appointed Collector of the Port of Now Yorl- hv .Tp.rkrin fVv. faulted to the amount of nearly a mi;. ion ana a naif. Jesse Hoyt, appointed ns hI4 successor by Van Buren. swindled th Government out of about a half a mtUori dollars. Out of about 60 land office re ceivers of public money 50 defaulted to the amount of $$30.COO. The operations of Neely and his associates, which Justly provoke so much Indignation, would have created but little excitement had thej happened in the good old Jackson days. Then there really was what Senator Hale, speaking of recent stealings In Cuba, calls "a carnival of fraud and corruption." But of the embezzlers of 70 years ago few were punished. Of the men who have been stealing In Cuba, few, if any, will escape. So far as is known the management of affairs by military officers on duty in Cuba has been free from reproach. But army officers have been dishonest, especially in the past. In 1823 President Van Buren dis honorably dismissed from the service Gen eral Gratiot. Chief Engineer, because he had defaulted to the amount of $50,000. In 1S12, according to General Jeesup, officers were guilty of peculations of which a Ser geant of Regulars would not have been guilty In 1S52. It is a mistake to fancy that there has been any progressive cor ruption m the public service of the Gen eral Government since "tne days of the fathers." There has been a remarkable Improvement in morality, notwithstanding this NeEly scandal. ANOTHER. TRADITION SHATTERED. Now They Are Hard After Uyron's PrlHoncr Uf Chlllon. New York Evening Sun. The historical experts, the devotees of hard fact, recently attacked the "Barbara Frietchle" legend and left it in a mangkd condition. And now we have anotner hard-headed investigator going for Dy ron's "Prisoner of Chlllon" with a club in tho Nineteenth Century. It is pointed out that the poet did not know what he was talking about when he wrote in h.s preface, "When this poem was composed I was not sufficiently aware of the history of Bonnivard, or I should have endeav ored to dignify the subject by an attempt to celebrate his coUrage and his virtues." Humbug, says the expert. If he had known what we know, he would have cast his manuscript into the scacoal fire he was so fond of talking about, or have turned the sheets to the humble use of plpellghtcri?. The celebrated Bonlvard (right spelling), it appears, was not the murh-injured martyr that we have been led to regard hlui. He was "an exceedingly cunning old boy: avaricious, libertine, and even un grateful." According to the new learning, he became, through a family "pull." prior of a monaster' at Geneva, and led a life too Joyous for an ecclesiastical digcitary. In the year 151S he became a Reformer. But, while approving of "reformation," QB an abstract proposition, he did not carry the theory into practice in his own life. On his return from Rome soon after he gave a sort of pink tea at the monas tery to the Reform clergy and horrified them by reading choice extracts from a very wicked and coarse comedy. It is said that he married three times, on each oc casion apainst his will, and it is stated incidentally that he or his servants sewed up one of the Mrs. Bonivards in a sack and sent her sailing down the River Rhone In the way that fc affected In Tur key In the case of ladles of the harem who don't behave themselves. It Is true that this very lively and interesUng per sonage was Incarcerated for a time in the Chateau de Chlllon. but from his own ac count of the experience his hair didn't znyfc white in a slnjrle night, or anything like that. He probably had all the Jailers In hte'pay and had a good time, getting his meals from a restaurant outside and receiving his friends, male and female, on days when visitors were not supposed to have admission. The gay old boy would have been very much surprised, Indeed, If he could have known that a poet of a later day was to represent him as making reflections like the following! O God. It Is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape. In any mood. As far as he was concerned, the only fearful thing was not to get as much value out of life as was properly coming to him. Nor was there any sign on his part of sorrow for his past or fear as to h's future. And so destructive criticism goes on. But It is only destructive in appearance. A poetical fact 13 stronger any day fian an ordinary fact. Bryon's Bonlvard is alive and so is Whittier's Barbara Friet chle. But the real Bonlvard and the real Barbara are as dead es Queen Anne. And the tourist who goes to Geneva will ig nore the results of the latest Investigation. If no real prisoner experienced the emo tions described in the poem, the place furnished inspiration to a great man. The poets bay-crowned on the heights of Par nassus are not to be disturbed by those who shake the dust out of the musty rec ords of the past. - NO PROGRESS BY THE NEGROES. DIsconrnRlnjc Report an to Evange lisation and Education. At the General Assembly of the South ern Presbyterian Church at Atlanta. Ga. last week. Rev. D. C. Lilly, secretary of the Stlllman Institute for Negroes, at Tus caloosa, Ala., spoke eloquently of the present condition and necessities of the colored people. In the outset he stated that he wished to correct the Impression that colored evangelization was prosper ing. "It is not meeting with success," said Dr. Lilly, "but the little that has been given to this department by the church has been expended wisely and cautiously. Our funds must be enlarged before the word 'success' can be applied to the work. "Though we have been, at this work among- the colored people of the South for 25 years, I cannot say that there Is a single self-supporting, negro church at this time. They are kept up with what aid the whites can give to the other race. "The negro's condition is such as to de mand Increased aid from us. Every year seems to bring a greater degree of crime, and his position In the mldv of the boast ed civilization of our countiy has not had the effect upon him many believed It would have. The negro Is not the strong character that makes Its own future. His future is not what he makes it, but what he can make it with the aid of his white friends. "I attended at Montgomefy, Ala., re cently a race conference, of which you may have see"n something in your read ing. A number of plans were suggested there for a settlement of the race problem, and among- them was the ohe that the ne gro will disappear. He will not disappear In our tim nor in the time of our chil dren or our children's children. You can not transport him; that plan is as Im practicable as the other. "Whenever the negro Is brought Into contact with city life he Is degraded. The statistics will show that there Is a great er per cent of crime among the negroes of the North than among these of the Sou'h, and thtu Is because the negrd in the North lives in the large cities, while in the South the great bulk of the race is scattered over agricultural districts. Fee the betterment of the race. I favor, there fore, the plan for agricultural education somethlrg to take the negro out of the corrupting Influences of the cities." The position taken by the speaker on the much lauded subject of Industrial educa tion for ths colored man was interesting, for the reason that his views conflict in everj" point with the expressions of Book er Washington end others regarding that form of education as the basis on which to work the saltation of the race. Rev. D. C. Lilly is opposed, strenuously op posed, 'o industrial training. He does not. after an experience of some years with the negro, believe that this Is the form of education he needs. "You need not look to industrial train ing," said he. "for the salvation of the race. Statistics that recently caihe to my rnt'ce show that of 1213 negroes who were trained Industrially only three of the en tire number have continued in the trades In wh ?h they were trained. These figures show ihe good of Industrial education. "The labor Unions that are now strong In the North will eventually become strong in the South. The negro will not be allowed to live peaceably as a mechan ic. The unions will push him out as tha strorper alwayi pushes out the wevker. I favor rather the plan which has been re ported of providing for the race an agrl cultrral education a training that will take the colored man out of the cities and Into the country, where the opportunities and tendencies toward crime are lessened "What a great mistake the people of the North made when they tried to raise the colored man up through legislation, and to give him culture In a few years' time. The conception was an erroneous one. Even in religion the negro has grown too fast. Hothouse growth is his re ligion. Those whoe lives are filled with the greatest shame sins the loudest and contribute mot to the support of the church. I carinot say that I ever caw a member of this race who had the right conception of rellKlon Avho appreciated who and what God is." Hnle Only Hurts Himself. New York Times. The real moral of the Neely business, as we have before said. Is that our pro consular government should remain a mlltary government, so long as It re mains at all. YoUng men who come tc the Assistant Postmaster-General with "pood letters" from "good Republicans" In Indiana or elsewhere, anxious to take part In the government of Cuba, should not be too readily welcomed and put In a position to lay their hands on the till. The solitary scandal that has blemished our administration of the island Is all the more notable and exemplary that It has hot proceeded from the same source as the administration that has done us credit But to magnify the Neely business Into "a carnival of corruption and fraud in ev en direction" Is simply to destroy tha cfedit of the magnifier and to Indlsnoss the public to piy attention to anything h may thereafter have to say on any subject. Two Hlore Vere DIcovered. New York Sun. Ortly two verses of Mr. Alfred Aust-n's majestic poem on the relief of Mafeklng were publishPd in the Sun . By an un fortunate accident these two were delayed In transmission: Loud j elled the bullet's blng. Sharp flarhed the saber's sting. As on to Mafeklng, Sped we with force meet. While the brave garrison. Steady by trench and gun, Faltered not, no. not one. Living on horsemeat! Oh, when they saw us come. Drubbed well was evry drum. And shrill the fife's tum-tum Poured till the ear split! Grimly the foe retired; Nathless he frequent flred. Till, beaten, moody, mired. His van and rear split! . Austin's "Relief of MafeMngr." Louisville Courier-Journal. Here is another installment of the poet laureate's pean on the relief of Mafeklng: As pressed the foo more near. Only with naked spear. Ne'er knowing what to fear, Parley or blench meant. Forward through shot, and shell, While still the foremost fell, They with resistless yell. Stormed hU lntrenchment. If England mUst have a poet laureate, would it not bo better to have a dead one? "The Charge of the Light Brigade" Is 0 thousand fold better than the living lau reate's Imitation of It. S0TE 'AND COMMENT. ? The Lord may be on Kruger's side, but the British are on his heels. . Clark believes the newspapers in NeW York are subsidized. He is sure about those in Montana. If there are any varletlesof weather which we haven't had lately, we should like to hear from them. Whistling will hereafter be forbidden on Chicago's streets. That city will be aa qUIet as Philadelphia If It keeps on. Mark Twain's candidacy for the Presi dency has been treated as a Joke, but It i not half as funny as Cornell's candidacy for Congress. How fleeting is fame! James J. Corbett is brought so low that he is running for Congress. Soon he will be content wltb a nomination for Vice-President. City Editor Did you Interview the priae flghter when he was defeated? Reporter No, sir; I stepped Into the rin Just at the finish and he was out. "There goes a Republican," observed Colonel Jack Chinn. "How annoying," said Governor Beck ham, "we've got to do something t strengthen those Jails." Ex-TJnlted States Senalor Johnson N. Camden, of Farkersburg, Is a candidate In West Virginia to succeed. Stephen B. Elkins, the present Legislature being clos on joint ballot and the Democrats having a majority of the hold-overs. Senator E1-' kins will be In the Republican field alone. His friends are confident of his return to' the Senate by a safe margin. The Republican National Convention of June In Philadelphia will have an unusu ally large number of United States Sen ators as delegates-at-large. Nearly every Republican Senator will be a delegate-af-large from his home state, and among ths1 Democrats, too, a like preference for Sen ators is being shown. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, will be chairman of his state's delegation, Jones that of Arkansas, Till man that of South Carolina, and so on. Anticipating the passage of the army reorganization bill, hundreds of applicants for the additional 100 cadetships have vis ited and written to the War Department. The War Department will go upon the theory that nominations for these places are to be made by Senators, although it Is not so stated in the bill. Each Senator will be allowed to name one cadet when ever there Is a vacancy within his control, and not annually. The department has decided not to let the whole 100 Join the cdrp3 at once next Fall, for fear of mak ing the ciass unwieldy. Fifty men will probably be appointed this year and 58 next. Either the two Senators from & state will be asked to combine In nomi nating one candidate for this year, or the senior Senators alone will be allowed to name their cadets. The graduating class at West Point cannot supply more than 54 Second Lieutenants toward filling the ISO vacancies in the grade. After the new graduates are commissioned, 28 enlisted men may obtain commissions, and then there will be 76 vacancies which should be filled, and yet ought not to be filled by civilians. The only way to prevent the re currence of this state of affairs is to in crease the-number of cadets at the United States Military Academy. The supply of shad sent to thds market at the present time is so greatly in excess of the demand that tons ot these fish have been sold within the past few days at from half a cent to 1 cent per pound, and yes terday a le of them were sold by the "lump" at 75 cents per large case. All these came from the selnlng-grounds in the lower river, and all cloud, it is understood, be liberated by the seiners if they would take a little trouble to do this. Now that the price of shad has become so low that it will not pay the freight on them, It would be good policy and the proper thing for seiners and proprietors of fishwheels to allow the shad they capture to escape alive. There have been many more shad this year than ever before, and a great many more have been used. Now that people all over the country are beginning to appreciate them, the demand, for them will be constantly Increasing, and the day is not distant when the shad fishery of tha Columbia will be ver, valuable. Tha shad of the Columbia average a greater weight than those of. any other river in the Union, and are not surpassed In quality anywhere. Salted shad are always In de mand in tho East, and some day a big business will be done here In salting shad 1 for export. From this time on to the end of the season, there is danger that tons of these valuable fish, which are about read to begin spawning, will be ruthlessly destroyed, and wasted, which would be a sin and a shame. The only way this can be prevented la for all Interested In the fisheries in the Columbia to take tha mat ter in hand, and see that all shad which cannot b utilized are alldwed to escape alive. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Expert Opinion. 'Tm so glad that tha pcor fellows at Mafeklng have been relieved." "Yes. Why so?" "Because now we'll find out what they think of tha starvation cure." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Have you read this sermon of the Eev. Dr. HlghflyerZ It's rank heresy." "Yes? Perhaps his press agent has recommended heresy as tho most effective form ot ecclesiastical advertis ing." Brooklyn Life. Quashing an Alibi. Defense Advocate Sir, the officer charged with being Intoxicated whtla on duty Is above the breath of suspicion. Po lice Commissioner Sir, your statement Is 111 timed; the accused Is een at this moment munching loves. Judge. Curios. "These are genuine Havana cigars," said tha connoisseur. "Oh," said the man who always likes to be of Importance, "and hero are some genuine Havana postage stamps." "What's Interesting about them?" "Nothing, except the fact that they are genuine." Washington Star. Neither Gets Them. "You seem to have a great taste for poetry," remarked the copy hook, observing the odlce goat sniffing around the- editor's waste basket. "Yes," replied tha goat, "but I like my poems well done, and I seldom nnd that sort here." "Huh!" exclaimed the copy-hook, the well-done poem that cornea to me Is very rare." Philadelphia Press. Poverty. Here a frail woman In a tattered shawl entered and laid a penny on the count er. "Give me two and one-half pounds of Sun day newspaper," she said. In a hollow voice. After she had gone out the proprietor of tho place told us that she would make auch a meager supply of this staple necessity suffice for a family of 14 persons. Detroit Journal. . That Typewriter. Baltimore American. 1 Have a new typ-eWrlter, Andd it is my de; ight to patter on it gallY And write, and write! and wrlt$ It aldss mE In my laborrsO When I)m In WorklNG vein It makeS A'GItEat lmprovEment0 I write So veKY pLoln. It operates soswlFtlYS that when yOu nnd you're sTUck;;) and CannotT UNd the lett4er JustCJab and trUsT to luck0(? It's Easy VEry eaSy t To opeRAte It then ;::??8sO Now where oa earth's that colon? x x x x x S Give me my Ink and pc&l